Household disability and time preferences: Evidence from incentivized experiments in Vietnam

Ute Rink and Theresa Rollwage

TVSEP Working Papers from Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, Project TVSEP

Abstract: This paper investigates individual time preferences between individuals living in a disability household and those who live in a non-disability household in Vietnam. Using randomized primes together with experimental tasks to elicit time preferences, our empirical results show that individuals living in a disability household are (i) more likely to be present biased, and (ii) more patient. The effects are even more pronounced when the disability happened recently (within the last 8 years). These findings show causal evidence that time preferences differ among more vulnerable groups of society and may be one cause for their often observed adverse socioeconomic conditions.

Keywords: Impact; Disability, Time preferences, Priming, Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 D91 I14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2022-09
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